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MEMORIAL 


EDWARD  R  GEARY,  D.D 


LATE  OF  EUGENE  CITY,  OREGON. 


CONTAINING 


Biographical  Sketches,MemoriilDiscourse 


AND  Tributes  of  Respect. 


EUGENE  CITY,  OREGON. 

Thj%  Occidicnt  Printing  House,  429  Montgomery  Street, 

san  francisco,  cal. 

1887. 


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CONTENTS. 


T.  Services  at  the  Funeral. 

II.  Action  of  the  Session  of  the  Eugene  City  Church. 

III.  Action  of  the  Board  of  Regents  of  the  University  of 

Oregon. 

IV.  Obituary  Notice  .             .              From  The  Occident. 
V.  Minute  of  the  Presbytery  of  Oregon. 

VI.  Public  Life,           .           By  Hon.  Mattheiv  P.  Deady,  LL.  D. 

VII.  Memorial  Discourse,         .         By  Rev.  A.  L.  Lindsley,  D.D. 

VIII.  Minute  of  the  Synod  of  the  Columbia. 

IX.  Tributes  Selected  from  Various  Sources. 

These  Tributes  are  numerous  and  varied.  The  limits  of  this 
publication  compel  a  selection,  which  is  made  with  reluctance.  In 
the  following  articles,  some  repetitions  will  appear  that  could  not  be 
avoided  without  omissions  which  would  be  mutilations  in  the  eyes 
of  the  writers,  and  impose  a  task  upon  the  editor  which  he  would 
not  willingly  assume.  Some  of  these  tributes  touching  the  life  and 
character  of  Dr.  Geary,  coming,  as  they  do,  from  men  of  different 
callings  and  culture,  yet  displaying  a  remarkable  unanimity,  are 
spontaneous  and  independent  estimates  of  his  worth  and  dignity ; 
and  may,  therefore,  be  regarded  as  the  final  verdict  of  his  con- 
temporaries. 

Numerous  letters  have  been  received  by  Mrs.  Geary  from  emi- 
nent gentlemen  in  different  parts  of  our  country,  expressing  their 
sincere  sympathy  for  her  and  their  high  appreciation  of  the  charac- 
ter and  labors  of  Dr.  Geary.  These  being  private  and  personal,  are 
not  inserted  in  this  volume. 


SERVICES  AT  THE  FUNERAL. 


Died  at  his  residence  in  the  city  of  Eugene,  Oregon,  the 
Rev.  Edward  R.  Geaey,  D.D.,  Pastor  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church,  September  1,  188G,  in  the  76th  year  of  his  age. 

The  public  funeral  was  conducted  in  the  Presbyterian 
Church  in  the  presence  of  a  great  concourse  of  citizens 
and  visitors  from  abroad.  Appropriate  and  touching 
addresses  were  made  by  Rev.  S.  G.  Irvine,  I).  I).,  of  the 
United  Presbj^terian  Church  of  Albany,  Professor  Thomas 
Condon,  of  the  State  University,  Rev.  A.  C.  Fairchild, 
of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  Rev.  C.  M.  Hill,  of 
the  Baptist  Church,  and  Rev.  G.  ^I.  Whitne}^  of  the 
Christian  Church. 

The  profound  sympathy  felt  by  the  entire  community 
forced  expression  in  many  tears;  and  groups  paused  long 
because  they  knew  they  should  "behold  his  face  no 
more."  The  remains  were  then  conve3"ed  to  the  Masonic 
Cemetery,  where  the  interment  took  place  after  the  final 
funeral  ceremonies. 


ACTION  OF  THE  SESSION. 


Extract  from  Minutes  of  the  Session  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church, 
Eugene  City,  Oregon,  October  31,  1SS6. 

It  is  with  the  profounclest  sorrow  we  liave  to  record 
the  departure  to  his  heavenly  home,  of  our  heloved  friend 
and  pastor,  Key.  Edwakd  R.  Geary,  V^.D.,  wlio  heard  and 
obeyed  tlie  summons  from  his  Heavenly  Father,  Sei)tem- 
ber  1,  1886. 

During  the  eleven  years  of  his  ministry  over  this 
church,  one  hundred  and  twenty  members  were  received 
into  communion,  increasing  the  total  above  dismissals 
and  deaths  to  ninety-three.  When  our  present  cluirch 
edifice  was  building,  he  took  a  personal  interest  in  its 
progress,  aiding  materially  with  his  influence  and  his 
means.  AVitli  liberal  hand,  he  always  assisted  largely  in 
the  benevolent  work  of  the  church. 

We  deem  it  a  i)leasure  as  a  Session,  voicing  as  well  the 
thought  of  the  Avhole  church,  to  bear  testimony  to  his 
untiring  fidelity  as  a  minister  of  the  Gospel,  in  his  kindly 
work  of  reclaiming  the  erring,  strengthening  the  weak 
and  building  up  the  kingdom  of  Ghrist  among  us. 

We  appreciate  highly  his  faithful  and  elocpient  presen- 
tation of  Bible  truth    from   the  sacred  desk    whicli   he 


lioiionMl  so  loiiii'  and  so  well,  and  we  venerate  his  memory 
as  one  whom  we  love  for  his  works'  sake. 

We  record  with  gratitude,  the  cordial  relations  always 
existin»i'  hctwecn  him  and  the  Session. 

Toward  tlic  close  of  his  ministry  he  frequently  reverted 
to  the  ])rospect  of  his  having  soon  to  lay  aside  the  grow- 
ing weight  of  so  large  a  pastoral  charge;  and  proposed  of 
his  own  accord,  at  the  end  of  last  year  to  supply  the 
puli)it  as  exigency  might  require,  till  the  church  should 
secure  a  pastor,  seconding  heartily  ever}'  effort  of  the 
Session  to  acconq)lish  the  end. 

We  feel  it  to  have  l)een  a  hlessing  to  he  associated  so 
long,  with  so  large-hearted  a  man,  true  and  loyal  to  his 
Master;  and  trust  and  })ray  that  the  henediction  of  his 
memory  may  never  pass  from  our  church  and  fireside 
till  we  clasp  hands  ahout  the  Great  White  Throne.  Oui* 
heartiest  sympathy  is  extended  to  the  bereaved  wife  and 
family,  recognizing,  as  we  do,  the  poignancy  of  the  sor- 
row tliat  has  entered  their  hearts,  yet  sanctified  by  the 
precious  heritage  of  honor,  that  crowns  all  our  lives 
through  the  godly  conversation  of  him  who  went  in  and 
out  before  us  as  a  true  husband,  father,  and  shepherd  of 
immortal  souls. 

Signed  :  John  Straub, 

Clerk  of  Session. 


ACTION  OF  THE  BOARD  OP  REGENTS. 


Whereas,  The  Rev.  Dh.  Edward  \X.  (tkary,  who  was 
for  a  long  time  a  Regent  of  the  University  of  Oregon, 
has,  since  our  last  meeting,  (le])artecl  this  life  : 

Resolved,  That  in  the  death  of  Dr.  ( iearv,  the  Univer- 
sity has  lost  an  ardent  and  efficient  friend  and  supporter, 
and  the  Regents  a  Avise  and  faithful  counselor  and  co- 
worker. 

Resolved,  That  a  cojn'  of  this  [)reai)il)lc  and  resolution, 
be  prepared  hy  the  Secretary  and  sent  to  the  widow  of 
the  deceased. 

Attest :  Joshua  J.  Waltox, 

Secretary. 
Adopted  June  10,  1887. 


OBITUARY  NOTICE. 

From  The  Occident,  Sau  Francisco,  Sept.  S,  1SS6. 


Key.  Edward  K.  (Jeary,  DT). 

This  eminent  man  and  minister  died  at  his  residence 
in  Eugene  City,  Oregon,  September  1,  1886.  He  was  a 
graduate  of  Jefferson  College,  class  of  1834,  and  his  tlieo- 
logical  course  was  completed  at  Allegheny.  His  early 
ministry  was  exercised  in  Fredericksburg,  Ohio,  and  was 
Yery  fruitful.  He  came  to  Oregon  in  1850,  authorized  b}" 
the  Board  of  Echication  to  establish  a  Christian  Academy 
to  be  erected  in  due  time  into  a  college,  and  by  the  Board 
of  Missions  to  preacli  the  gospel  and  gather  churches. 
In  conjunction  witli  Kcys,  Robert  Robe  and  Lewis 
Thompson,  he  organized  tlie  Presbytery  of  Oregon  in 
1851.  Dr.  Geary  prosecuted  liis  ministry  while  he  was 
•employed  as  Superintendent  of  Indian  Affairs,  acted  as 
(k)unty  Clerk  and  was  afterward  appointed  Judge.  He 
Avas  compelled  to  resort  to  these  employments  to  support 
his  family.  Much  of  his  journeying  was  done  on  foot, 
with  occasional  helj)  on  the  way,  the  price  of  a  horse  and 
saddle  being  equiYalent  to  a  year's  salary  from  the  Board. 


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In  the  })ioiieer  days  the  missionary  work  was  exceed- 
ingly arduous.  The  settlements  were  few  and  distant, 
and  the  difficulties  of  the  work  were  increased  by  the  un- 
Avillingness  of  sectarians  to  unite  in  a  common  organiza- 
tion, and  tlie  liostility  of  men  wlio  were  oi)posed  to  all 
religion.  Notwithstanding  these  discouragements,  the 
Presbyterian  church  was  established  in  important  places^ 
an  academy  with  a  college  charter  was  founded  and  is 
still  flourishing.  Indian  tribes  Avere  taught  and  rights 
defended,  and  moral  reforms  set  on  foot,  in  all  of  which 
Dr.  Geary  ])ore  a  very  cons])icu()us  i)art. 

He  continued  in  the  active  service  of  the  ministry. 
against  repeated  inducements  to  devote  himself  to  other 
callings.  The  nomination  for  (Jovernor  of  the  State  he 
declined,  saying  to  the  writer,  "  I  am  a  minister  of  Christ, 
and  intend  to  live  and  die  in  his  service."  He  might 
have  been  elected  United  States  Senator  if  he  had  held 
his  ordination  vows  with  less  inflexible  grasp. 

Dr.  ( Jeary  was  a  fine  scholar,  a  well  versed  theologian, 
a  convincing  preacher.  He  was  capable  of  high  philo- 
sophical themes,  as  well  as  scientific  investigations.  His 
mind  was  powerful,  and  worked  with  tremendous  force 
along  any  line  which  he  pursued.  His  spirit  w^as  devo- 
tional, and  his  ministrations  among  the  poor  and  the 
afflicted  will  never  be  forgotten. 

While  his  principles  were  conservative,  his  sentiments 
were  liberal  and  generous.  He  deplored  the  sectarian 
divisions  of  the  church,  and  warmly  advocated  the  open 
fellowship  of  all  evangelical  denominations. 


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He  was  highl}'  respected  by  professional  men  for  liis 
learning  and  dignity,  and  by  all  classes  for  bis  benevo- 
lence, worth  and  integrity.  He  was  too  manly  to  stoop 
to  meanness  ;  too  generous  to  take  advantage  of  an  enemy 
or  exact  bis  own;  too  forgiving  to  barbor  resentment; 
and  his  brethren  in  the  ministry  ever  found  him  a  faith- 
ful friend,  a  wise  counselor,  and  a  brother  worthy  of  in- 
creasing affection  and  reverence.  There  is  not  a  man  on 
the  Coast  who  ever  knew  Judge  Geary  or  Dr.  Geary,  that 
does  not  mourn  his  loss. 

The  death  of  his  daughter,  Elizabeth  Woodbridge,  Avas 
a  blow  from  which  he  did  not  recover.  He  resigned  his 
charge  last  April,  but  continued  to  assist  the  congrega- 
tion as  pastor  and  in  efforts  to  secure  a  successor. 

To  Mrs.  Gear}'  and  the  children  of  our  venerated 
brother,  The  Occident  tenders  its  heartfelt  sympathy,  in 
which  we  are  sure  the  ministers  and  churches  of  both  our 
Svnods  share. 


MINUTH  OF  THE  PRESBYTERY  OF  OREGON, 


Witli  deep  and  unfeigned  sorrow  the  Presbytery  of 
Oregon  is  called  upon  to  make  a  record  of  the  death  of 
Rev.  Edward  R.  Geary,  D.D.  He  died  at  his  home  in 
Eugene,  on  the  1st  of  September,  1886. 

Dr.  Geary  Avas  born  near  Boonsboro,  Washington 
Co.,  Maryland,  April  3()th,  1811.  His  age,  therefore,  was 
seventy-five  years  and  four  months.  His  father,  who 
was  a  man  of  classical  culture,  was  his  principal  teacher. 
His  mother  was  an  exemplary  Christian.  Of  her  pious 
•care  of  her  children  Dr.  Geary  often  spoke. 

At  the  age  of  thirteen  he  was  employed  as  an  assistant 
clerk  in  the  office  of  the  Recorder  of  Westmoreland  Co., 
Pa.,  and  occupied  his  leisure  in  gratifying  a  thirst  for 
knowledge  by  reading  useful  books.  Being  observant  and 
intelligent,  he  acquired  a  knowledge  of  public  speaking 
by  listening  to  the  j)leas  and  proceedings  at  the  Court 
House. 

He  commenced  a  course  of  study  in  the  Academy  of 
Greensburg,  Pa.,  supporting  himself  by  writing  in  the 
public  offices  and  teaching.  He  entered  an  advanced 
class  in  Jeffi'rson  College  in  1831.  His  varied  prepara- 
tion gave  him  a  good  standing  in  the  college  from  the 
start.  His  religious  impressions,  made  in  childhood,  had 
grown  strong  and  decisive;  and  during  his  senior  year  his 


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thoughts  were  turned  to  the  ministry  of  the  Gospel.  His- 
theological  course  was  pursued  in  the  seminar}'  at  Alle- 
gheny. He  has  spoken  with  deep  gratitude  of  his  indebt- 
edness to  his  theological  professor,  Dr.  Jol)  F.  Halsey,. 
whose  influence  he  acknowledged  oidy  a  year  or  two  ago. 

After  a  few  years  spent  in  Alabama  in  teaching,  he  re- 
turned to  Pennsylvania,  and  being  licensed  he  was  called 
to  the  charge  of  the  church  at  Fredericksburg,  Ohio,  and 
was  there  ordained  and  installed.  Thirteen  years  of 
faithful  and  laborious  service  were  distinguished  for 
unusual  success.  Frequent  revivals  brought  rich  bless- 
ings and  large  ingatherings. 

At  this  time,  1851,  the  Board  of  Education  and  Domes- 
tic Missions  sent  Mr.  Geary  as  a  missionary  to  Oregon. 
Dr.  Van  Rensselaer's  noble  and  comprehensive  plan  of 
education  was  undergoing  successful  experiments;  and  Mr. 
Geary  was  authorized  to  establish  schools  or  academies 
under  the  direction  of  the  Board  of  Education,  and  to 
gather  congregations  under  the  direction  of  the  Board  of 
Missions.  Although  he  was  not  ignorant  of  the  recency 
of  "  white  "  settlements  in  Oregon,  he  was  not  wholly  ])re- 
pared  for  the  wide  extent  of  country  which  stretched  on 
every  side  between  the  settlements,  and  which  was  still 
trodden  I)}'  roving  bands  of  Aborigines  ;  and  he  fovmd 
that  the  entire  Pacific  Northwest  was  in  a  great  measure 
unknown,  and  the  general  impression  respecting  it,  was 
vague  or  erroneous.  The  ol)ject  therefore  of  the  Board  of 
Missions  could  l)e  gained  only  to  a  very  limited  extent ; 
and  the  object  of  the  Board  of  Education,  after  a  few 


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experiments,  was  necessarily  postponed  for  a  larger  popu- 
lation. 

In  the  work  of  Missions  and  Christian  Education,  Mr. 
Geary  was  ahly  seconded  by  his  wife,  who  was  a  graduate 
of  Mt.  Holyoke  Seminar}',  and  who  belonged  to  the  Wood- 
lu-idge  family,  well  known  in  the  Eastern  States  for 
their  ability  and  culture,  as  well  as  for  their  Christian 
integrity  and  influence. 

Through  innumerable  trials  incident  to  the  early  set- 
tlement of  every  country,  intensified  in  Oregon  by  the 
•circumstances  just  referred  to,  sparseness  of  population 
and  bitter  and  destructive  Indian  wars,  our  Brother  Geary 
maintained  the  cause  of  Christ  :  but  he  was  compelled, 
by  the  necessity  that  knows  no  law,  to  support  his  grow- 
ing family  by  secular  pursuits — which  was  indeed  the 
'exi)erience  of  all  the  early  missionaries  on  this  coast.  His 
service  of  the  government  as  superintendent  of  Indian 
Affairs,  enabled  liini  to  make  wise  and  salutary  improve- 
ments in  the  management,  and  secured  his  firm  friend- 
ship for  the  poor  red  men. 

He  declined  important  political  preferments,  and  wel- 
<*()med  with  great  gladness  of  heart  his  full  return  to  the 
work  of  the  ministry  in  which  he  performed  manifold 
services  without  earthh'  compensation.  In  conjunction 
with  Kev.  W.  J.  Monteith  he  founded  Albany  Collegiate 
Institute,  and  lalxn'ed  in  it  for  years  as  President  and 
teacher  while  he  continucMl  to  i)reach.  He  was  pastor  at 
P)rownsville,  at  Pleasant  Grove,  and  at  Albany,  until  in 
1875   he   settled  in   Eui2;ene  Citv,  wliere  he  continued  his 


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labors  until  last  April,  when  he  resigned  the  pastorate. 

The  illness  which  terminated  fatally  was  caused  b}'  a 
disorder  that  was  pronounced  mortal  from  the  first.  We 
are  thankful  that  he  was  not  compelled  to  linger  a  long- 
time, and  that  he  was  able  to  bear  testimony  to  the  faith- 
fulness of  God,  to  his  unfaltering  trust  in  our  Redeemer, 
and  to  his  unclouded  ho})e  of  heaven.  He  was  a  regent 
of  the  University  of  Oregon  in  which  he  performed 
efficient  service.  He  several  times  represented  his 
Presbytery  in  the  (leneral  Assembly.  He  received 
his  title  Doctor  Divinitatis  from  his  Alma  Mater,  Jeffer- 
son College,  in  1870.  He  was  one  of  the  constituting 
members  of  the  Presb3^tery  of  Oregon,  the  other  two 
being  the  Revs.  Robert  Robe  and  Lewis  Thompson. 

Dr.  Geary  excelled  as  an  extempore  speaker,  theologian, 
debater  and  counselor.  In  social  life  he  was  genial,  sym- 
pathetic and  influential.  In  private  personal  intercourse 
he  was  especially  attractive  and  fraternal  ;  and  tlie  more 
he  gave  his  confidence,  the  more  his  best  qualities  shone 
forth  in  the  liberality  of  his  sentiments  and  the  affluence 
of  his  affections. 

But  there  was  nothing  clannish  in  his  nature.  There 
was  ever  a  place  Avithin  the  circle  of  his  sensibilities  for 
man  as  man,  and  the  cry  of  want  or  weakness  and  the 
mute  appeal  of  sorrow  found  in  him  an  uncalculating 
friend  and  helper. 

Dr.  Geary  held  the  views  called  Presbyterian  as  alto- 
gether scriptural  and  as  alone  competent  to  explain  the 
purposes  of  God  in  the  scheme  of  salvation  and  the  divine 


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[)lan  ill  tlu' visible  organization  of  the  churcli.  While 
Ills  lovalty  to  liis  OAvn  cliurch  was  firm  from  intelligent 
conviction,  lie  embraced  all  evangelical  denominations  in 
the  unity  of  the  faith  and  of  the  si)irit  and  labored  in  all 
catholic  causes  to  build  up  the  Kingdom  of  God  among 
men,  and  promote  the  world's  preparation  for  the  coming 
of  her  King. 

The  cast  of  his  mind  was  philosophical,  yet  he  was  en- 
dowed with  a  ricli  imagination  and  delicate  sensibilities. 
He  could  indulge  in  abstruse  speculations,  which  required 
the  highest  analytical  powers,  and  delight  in  poetic  crea- 
tions of  the  finest  mold  ;  but  he  esteemed  them  all  as  of 
little  worth  unless  he  could  lay  them  as  tributes  at  the 
foot  of  the  Cross. 

Thus  lived  and  died  our  beloved  and  venerated  l)rother 
Geary,  honored  and  respected  by  all  classes,  and  lamented 
bv  the  entire  community.  May  his  memory  be  cherished 
as  a  sacred  legacy,  that  liis  associates  and  successors 
may  emulate  his  excellence. 

We  express  our  heartfelt  sympathy  for  Mrs.  Geary  and 
the  children,  and  other  relations  of  our  departed  brother. 
jVIav  his  i)rayers  for  them  be  answered,  and  his  labors  for 
the  church  of  Christ  be  blessed  a  thousand  fold,  in  the 
future  growth  and  ])rosperity  of  this  part  of  our  beloved 
land. 

( )rdered  to  Ih'  engrossed  on  the  records,  and  a  copy  for- 
warded to  Mrs.  Gear3\ 

Attest:  .1.   y.  MiLLKiAX. 

iStati'd  Ch'fk,  PirKln/ti'i-ji  of  Oregon. 


PUBLIC  LIFE 


OF 


Edward    R.    G^ary,    D.  D. 


BY  THE 


HON.  M.  P.   DEADY,  LL.  D. 


Judge  of  (lie   United  States  Circnit  Court  and  President  of  the  Board  of 
Regents  of  the   University  of  Oregon. 


PUBLIC  LIFE. 

The  Hev.  Edwakd  li.  Geary,  I).  D.,  spent  the  last  thirty- 
five  years  of  his  life  in  Oregon.  During  all  this  period 
he  was  in  the  ministry  of  the  Presb3^terian  Church,  and 
engaged  more  or  less  in  its  active  duties,  as  a  missionary 
and  otherwise. 

]^ut  much  of  this  time  was  given  to  the  discharge  of 
public  duties  of  a  useful  and  important  character,  in  posi- 
tions to  which  he  was  called  by  the  appreciation  of  liis 
fellow-citizens. 

He  was  a  man  of  marked  and  varied  ability,  endowed 
by  nature  with  a  sound  mind  in  a  sound  body,  enriched 
by  a  generous  education  and  large  experience  and  con- 
trolled by  a  lively  sym])athy  and  kindly  interest  in  wbat- 
ever  concerned  the  welfare  of  his  kind  and  country.  It 
was,  therefore,  impossible  for  him  to  refrain  fi-om  taking 
an  active  part  in  anything  affecting  the  spiritual  or 
worldly  welfare  of  the  community  in  which  he  lived. 

Dr.  Geary  was  sent  to  Oregon  b}-  the  Presbyterian 
Board  of  Home  Missions  for  the  purpose  of  establishing 
schools  and  churches  in  the  country.  He  arrived  here  in 
April,  1851,  and  soon  settled  in  the  immediate  vicinitv  of 


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Lafayette,  in  Yainliill  County — tlion  the  second  town  in 
population  and  importance  in  the  territory. 

Here,  in  conjunction  with  his  wise  counselor  and 
faithful  help-meet — Mrs.  Nancy  Woodl)ridi;e  deary — he 
estahlished  and  maintained  for  some, time,  a  girls'  board- 
ing school,  which  made  its  impress  for  good  on  those  who 
were  fortunate  enough  to  come  within  its  wholesome 
intluence. 

From  the  fall  of  1851  until  the  spring  of  1853,  he 
served  as  clerk  of  the  U.  S.  District  Court,  for  Yaudiill 
Countv — his  excellent  penmanship  and  natural  aptitude 
for  legal  forms  and  proceedings  making  him  an  excellent 
officer. 

During  this  time  he  held  service  and  preached  once  or 
twice  on  ever}'  Sunday  at  Lafayette  and  elsewhere  in  the 
vicinity.  The  writer  has  often  heard  him  in  tlie  old 
court  room  at  that  i)lace.  Generally  liis  theme  was 
Christian  conduct  and  Gospel  truth,  but  sometimes  he 
turned  aside  'to  wrestle  with  the  once  awful  i)r()blem 
involved  in  foreknowledge,  foreordination   and  free  will. 

Early  in  185.'),  he  was  appointed  Secretary  to  the 
Superintendent  of  Lidian  Affairs  for  Oregon  and  Wash- 
ington, which  i)lace  he  retained  until  the  latter  i)art  of 
1855.  During  his  secretaryshij)  treaties  were  negotiated 
with  all  the  Indian  tribes  in  middle  Oregon  from  the 
south  to  the  noi'th  boundary  of  tlie  State.  'I'hey  are  i)ub- 
lished  ill  the  tenth  volume  of  the  U.  S.  Statutes  at  large, 
and  Mr.  ( Jeary's  name  is  appen<le(l  to  them,  as  S(.'ei'etarv, 
and    that    of  Joel    Talnier,  as   Su})erinten(lent   of    Indian 


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Affairs.  In  tliis  way  he  had  mucli  to  do  Avith  shaping  the 
policy  of  the  government  towards  these  Indians  and  pro- 
viding for  their  future  education  and  improvement. 

In  the  fall  of  1856,  he  removed  Avith  his  family  to  Linn 
county  and  there  devoted  most  of  his  time  to  the  -work 
of  the  ministry,  in  the  churches  of  Corvallis,  Calapooia, 
Brownsville  and  Diamond  Hill;  and  in  1858  he  was  elected 
Superintendent  of  Schools  for  Linn  county. 

Early  in  1859  he  Avas  appointed  Superintendent  of 
Indian  Affairs  for  Oregon  and  Washington.  During  his 
incumhency  of  the  office  he  was  distinguished  by  a  wise 
and  vigorous  administration  of  its  affairs.  Tlie  office  Avas 
then  one  of  much  importance  and  responsibility  financiallv 
and  otherAvise.  He  Avas  doubtless  selected  l)y  the  Presi- 
dent for  the  place  on  account  of  a  strong  petition  AA'hich 
the  Avriter  had  procured  for  his  appointment  to  the  office 
in  the  fall  of  1855.  In  1861  he  resigned  the  position  and 
returned  to  his  ministerial  AA^ork  at  BroAvnsville,  Linn 
county;  Avhere  he  also  materially  aided  in  the  erection  of 
a  Avoolen  mill,  going  east  in  the  fall  of  1861,  to  purchase 
the  machinery  for  the  factory. 

In  the  spring  of  1865  he  removed  to  his  farm  near 
Albany,  thence  to  Albany  in  the  fall  of  1868  Avhere  he  re- 
mained until  1875. 

In  1866  he  Avas  appointed  county  judge,  Avhich  office  he 
held  for  some  years.  The  succeeding  years  of  his  resi- 
dence in  Linn  county  AA'ere  largely  devoted  to  the  estab- 
lishment of  the  Collegiate  Institute  at  Albany.  He 
served  one  3^ear — 1868  and  1869 — as  its  President,  and 


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as  President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  for  a  nuinl)er  of 
years.  In  1870,  his  Ahna  Mater — Jefferson  College, 
Pennsylvania — conferred  on  him  the  honorary  degree  of 
Doctor  of  Divinity.  Later,  in  the  year  1884,  he  had  the 
l)leasure  and  distinction  of  attending  the  coniniencement 
exercises  of  the  college  on  the  semi-centennial  of  his  own 
graduation,  where  he  sat  down  to  dinner  with  the  remain- 
ing half-dozen  of  his  classmates,  among  whom  was  the 
venerable  Dr.  Samuel  Hamill,  the  distinguished  founder 
of  the  Lawrenceville  Preparatory  School,  near  Princeton, 
New  Jersey. 

During  all  this  time  he  continued  to  minister  to  the 
feeble  churches  in  his  vicinity — furnishing  largely  his  own 
support. 

In  1875,  he  removed  to  Eugene  and  took  charge  of  the 
Presbyterian  church  at  that  place,  where  he  remained 
until  his  death  on  September  1,  188G. 

Soon  after  going  to  Eugene  he  was  appointed  ])y  the 
Ciovernor  one  of  the  Regents  of  the  University  of  Oregon, 
then  lately  established  at  that  place.  As  Regent  he  was 
very  useful  in  heli)ing  to  i)lan  and  conduct  the  work  of 
this  new  and  im])ortant  institution,  so  as  to  make  it  an 
efficient  means  of  liigher  education  in  Oregon.  His  wise 
counsels  and  stimulating  confidence  Avill  be  missed  in  the 
future  management  of  the  school. 

Tlius  living  and  dying  at  the  advanced  age  of  75  years, 
with  his  faculties  unimpaired,  Edward  R.  Geary  impressed 
liimself  for  good,  on  the  opinion  and  action  of  this  State 
in  a  large  and  lasting  measure. 


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His  venerable,  but  manly  form  Avill  be  seen  no  more  in 
the  gatherings  of  tlie  people,  in  the  Halls  of  Learning,  or 
in  the  House  of  (lod,  where  his  voice  was  wont  to  be 
heard  in  sup[)ort  of  material  improvement,  intellectual 
progress,  and  whatever  makes  for  righteousness. 

But  he  has  not  lived  in  vain.  The  effect  of  his  faithful 
teaching  and  good  example,  for  more  than  a  third  of  a 
century  in  Oregon,  remains  with  us  and  will  l)ear  fruit 
for  generations  to  come. 

"  To  him  that  soweth  righteousness  shall  be  a  sure 
reward." 

''  Blessed  are  the  dead  which  die  in  the  Lord  from 
henceforth;  and  their  works  do  follow  them." 


DISCOURSE 

COMMEMORATIVE  OF  THE   LIFE  AND   CHARACTER 

OF  THE 

Rev.  Edward  R.  Geary,  D.  D.    • 

ADDRESSED  TO 

The  Congregation  of  the  Presbytekian  Church  of 
Eugene  City,  Oregon 

By  rev.  a.  L.  LINDSLEY,  D.  D., 

Pastor  of  First  Presbyterian   Chinrh,  Portland,   Orei^on,  and  Professor-elect  in  the 
San  Francisco   Theolo;^ical  Seminary. 


SABBATH  MORNING,  OCTOBER  31,   1887. 


MEMORIAL  DISCOURSE. 


"he  being  dead  yet  srEAKETII."  ^ 

These  words  relate  to  one  of  the  first  worshipers  of  the 
living  God.  His  name  is  sculptured  upon  the  earliest 
altar  of  our  race;  and  reappears  with  iniperishahle  honor 
near  the  last  of  the  inspired  writings.  The  influence  of 
his  consecrated  life  Avas  so  henign  and  salutary,  that  it 
has  been  projected  through  all  ages,  and  will  befell  while 
time  lasts. 

His  is  an  unfading  example  of  spiritual  worshi])  and 
acceptable  offerings,  ])ermanent  in  their  nature,  and 
therefore  independent  of  all  changes  of  climate,  culture, 
or  civilization.  To  Avell  regulated  minds  it  is  an  inex- 
pressible delight  to  enjoy  the  favor  of  Heaven  and  the 
approbation  of  conscience.  ]^ut  when  (iod  makes  known 
his  appreciation  of  one's  character,  and  confirms  it  l)y 
giving  in  his  testimony  thereto,  it  must  kindle  in  the 
soul  of  the  worshiper  a  peri)etual  joy.  It  must  lift  him 
above  the  earthly  entanglement,  and  bid  him  soar  away 
at  last  to  his  native  skies.  His  body  perishes;  but  his 
name  survives.  His  tongue  is  silent  ;  but  his  renown  is 
a  living  voice.     "  P>y  it  he  being  dead  yet  s})eaketh." 

*By  faith  Abel  offered  unto  God  a  more  excellent  sacrifice  than  Cain,   by  which  he 
btained  witness  that  he  was  righteous,  God  testifying  of  his  gifts;  and  by  it  he  being  dead 
yet  speaketh.— Heb.  14:  4. 


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I>ut  tliis  explanation  does  not  satisfy  tlic  uiiinfornied 
and  the  liypereritical;  for  sucli,  they  say,  is  not  the  ordi- 
nary experience  of  mankind.  To  iinl)elief  lumian  life  is 
an  enigma,  death  a  rayless  mystery.  In  this  view,  which 
claims  to  be  i)hilosophical,  the  career  of  life  is  painfully 
wrong,  and  destitute  of  meaning,  ft  wanders  into  deep- 
ening gloom  without  the  skill  to  extricate  itself.  Its 
only  relief  is  in  the  vague  notion  that  in  the  progress  of 
the  ages  the  miseries  of  life  shall  he  lessened,  and  a  hap- 
pier state  of  things  evolve  itself  out  of  the  existing  chaos. 
But  this  is  the  l)est  that  can  l)e  said  of  it. 

Such,  in  hrief,  is  the  popular  skepticism  which  has  its 
roots  in  the  alienation  of  the  heart  from  God,  and  is  cap- 
tivated by  any  invention  which  will  keep  conscience  quiet, 
and  draw  a  mask  over  eternity.  It  glides  without  a 
pause  into  materialism — a  turning  of  the  theory  of  evo- 
lution upside  down,  and  thereby  pushing  a  well  estab- 
lished theory  of  development  into  an  unsupported  and 
redun<lant  s})eculation. 

Witli  all  its  dexterity  in  usurping  the  i)lace  of  con- 
scious Divinity,  it  is  utterly  incapable  of  taking  a  single 
step  beyond  the  present  state  of  existence.  It  is  barred 
out  of  the  world  to  come  by  its  own  limitations.  Its  de- 
velopments cannot  possibly  be  foreseen.  Only  when 
they  become  manifest  can  they  be  known,  and  thence- 
forward become  historical.  The  present  life  is,  therefore, 
an  enigma  to  those  who  adoj)t  the  extreme  theory,  because 
the  absolute  conditions  of  their  own  notions  arivst  them 
at  the  moment    of  death.     Nothing  beyond    the    grave 


[UNlVIHTlSrTYjJ 

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touching  man's  nature  can  be  evolved  l)y  tliem,  and 
hence  tlie  arrest  is  hiid  u])()n  their  oAvn  moral  and  s])ii'it- 
ual  being — a  fatal  and  inexorable  arrest — a  barrier  which 
is  heaven  high  and  deep  as  hell.  Its  unhai)py  advocates 
are  logical  when  thev  ])nsh  their  favorite  theory  to  its 
legitimate  conclusion;  and  the  unknowable  is  a  name 
which  they  are  compelled  to  adopt  when  they  renounce 
the  knowledge  of  the  ever-living  Creator,  and  block  up 
the  sources  of  information  which  they  might  have  fol- 
lowed into  the  light.  It  is  not  strange,  therefore,  that 
they  call  life  an  enigma  and  death  an  inscrutable  mystery 
or  in  outspoken  phrase,  annihilation. 

We  have  to  do  with  man  and  his  future.  If  he  is  not 
complete,  if  he  is  not  the  end  of  a  series,  there  is  occasion 
for  the  profoundest  concern  al)out  his  future.  If  he  is 
the  end  of  a  series,  then  what  we  call  death  is  his  natural 
and  legitimate  end,  and  the  whole  extinction  of  develo])- 
]nents  from  i)r()toi)lasm  to  the  complex  l)eing  called  man. 
If  he  is  not  the  end  of  a  series,  then  l)y  the  philosophy  of 
evolution  man  must  die  in  order  to  make  way  for  the  in- 
troduction of  the  next  develoi)ment.  And  the  next  shall 
be  the  last:  the  man  renewed  in  the  righteousness  and 
holiness  of  the  Truth,  after  the  pattern  of  Ilim  that 
created  him.  This  i)rophecy  finds  an  echo  in  our  breasts 
when  we  cherish  hopes  of  the  future  which  have  the  hue 
of  delightful  anticipations,  and  that  are  sometimes  the 
only  spur  to  exertion,  and  the  oidy  citadel  amidst  disas- 
ter and  defeat,  within  which  we  gather  up  our  remainin<>- 
resources  to  renew  the  conflict. 


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Tliis  h<)i)e  survives  in  the  midst  of  successive  changes; 
and  it  often  attempts  to  cross  tlie  silent  houndarv  of  life, 
to  speculate  ahout  the  rciiions  beyond,  and  even  con- 
structs a  theory  of  the  future  life,  <iivinir  to  it  the 
imaginings  that  correspond  with  the  i)leasures  and  ])as- 
sions  of  the  life  that  now  is.  The  springs  of  such  inven- 
tions are  hidden  in  our  spiritual  nature,  which  is  in- 
destructible. And  every  system  of  philosophy  is  false, 
and  all  argument  is  fallacious,  which  are  attempted  to  be 
constructed  upon  any  idea  of  human  nature  that  leaves 
out  a  just  and  consistent  consideration  of  the  longings  and 
aspirations  of  the  race  universal  after  the  enjoyments  of  a 
state  of  futurity. 

Many  able  thinkers  pronounce  the  atheistic  bias  of  evo- 
lution ephemeral  because  it  is  partial,  for  its  incomplete- 
ness is  seen  in  ignoring  some  of  the  indestructible  hopes 
and  sentiments  of  human  nature.  Its  narrowness  is  at 
once  detected  when  it  conveys  us  to  the  verge  where  all 
men  cry  for  light,  and  tries  to  escape  l)y  pronouncing  life 
an  enigma  which  is  insoluble,  and  death  a  mystery  whicli 
is  unfathomalde. 

A  true  and  legitimate  evolution,  as  we  have  seen,  fore- 
casts another  grand  and  [)erhaps  final  efflorescenci'  in  the 
series,  giving  to  these  prophecies  in  our  nature  a  complete 
fulfillment  in  anotlu'r  state  of  existence.  This  is  not  a 
visionarv  conclusion,  l)ut  a  logical  deduction  froiu  the 
premises  that  must  lie  at  the  foundation  of  any  system 
of  philosophy  wliicii  requires  tbat  all  tiie  parts  whicli  con- 
stitute   the   essence  or   the   substance  of  related   tbings, 


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must  be  accounted  for.  That  is  a  pretentious  theory 
which  arrogantly  claims  pre-eminence,  and  yet  leaves  in 
linilx)  tlie  enigmas  wliich  it  pretends  to  solve,  and  mys- 
teries which  it  should  explain,  or  at  least  make  rational. 

Now  what  does  the  wliole  non-theistic  drift  of  this 
philosophy  amount  to?  As  touching  Christianity  it 
casts  its  influence  against  it,  and  against  any  plan  of 
relief,  or  hint  of  cure.  It  encourages  not  a  solitary  hope 
for  the  })resent,  and  sheds  no  ray  upon  yonder  shoreless 
ocean. 

But  what  we  want  to  know  is  how  to  escape  tlie  evils 
of  tlio  present,  and  how  to  kindle  an  undying  ho])e  for 
the  future.  What  we  need  is  not  speculation  in  pliiloso- 
phy,  hut  the  plain  reason  of  things,  and  (lod  to  c[well  in 
them  all,  a  God  to  dictate  to  Nature  as  its  ruler,  and  a 
spirit  in  man  to  wiiich  God  imparts  his  Spirit.  That 
spirit  makes  immortality  an  article  of  belief,  then  instills 
a  consciousness  of  its  truth,  and  finally  l)roadens  it  into  a 
personal  ex])erience. 

Wlien  this  philosophy  shall  be  accepted  (towards  which 
the  debate  is  tending),  it  will  soar  above  the  phvsical 
environment  which  now  cramps  it  and  materializes  it. 
It  will  ascend  into  the  spiritual.  It  will  ex})atiate  over 
realms  a])()ve  physical  nature.  It  will  find  its  true  ex- 
pansion in  the  supernatural.  Even  while  dwelling  in  its 
earthly  environment,  it  is  })reparing  for  the  house  not 
made  with  hands. 

Thus  the  enigma  of  life  is  solved,  and  the  mysteries  of 
death  cleared  slwsly.     The  life  is  dedicated  to  nobler  aims, 


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and  (k'atli  is  tlie  door  of  oiitrance  into  life  otcrnal.  Tlie 
fancied  enigmas  are  brushed  away  witli  tlie  rubbish  of  a 
false  philosophy.  The  distrust  which  is  born  of  ignorance 
will  give  i)lace  to  confidence;  and  bondage  to  the  objects 
of  sense  Avill  give  ])lace  to  the  liberty  of  heirship  in  the 
spiritual  realm. 

What  a  grand  idea  is  this,  yet  so  sim})le  that  it  is  easily 
understood,  and  so  comprehensive  that  there  is  a  place 
for  everything  and  all  souls  in  it. 

This  philosoi)]iy  disentangles  the  })eri)lexities  which 
are  evolving  from  the  violent  efforts  to  shut  (U)d  out  of 
His  Universe,  which,  like  the  troubled  sea,  casts  uj)  mire 
and  dirt,  instead  of  reflecting  the  cloudless  heaven  above 
it.  Immediatel}'  upon  lifting  the  gaze  above  the  leaden 
Avaters  there  appears  the  simplicity  of  divine  truth,  with 
pure  and  nol)le  ideas  of  righteousness  and  duty.  The 
Gospel  will  appear  to  be  the  healer  of  nature's  wounds; 
and  all  its  rcipiircments  and  blessings  will  be  seen  to  be 
consistent  with  the  state  of  man,  and  the  intellectual  and 
moral  laws  which  are  discernible  by  the  light   of  nature. 

That(iospel  in  the  final  i)hilosophv  will  l)e  accepted  as 
scientific  as  well  as  religious.  The  conclusions  of  science 
which  i)rove  the  permanent  transmission  of  hereditary 
qualities,  at  once  attests  the  degeneracy  of  human  nature, 
out  (jf  which  grows  the  baleful  fruit  of  sins  and  transgres- 
sions. And  there  remains  only  the  infiiction  of  the  penalty, 
which  is  also  a  deduction  of  the  same  science  that  })r()ves 
tons  the  inflexibility  of  law  and  its  I'ctributions. 

What  can  possibly  be  more  cheering  than  to  know  that 


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all  the  penalties  of  human  guilt  growing  out  of  the 
hereditary  transmission  of  a  eorrupt  nature  are  ahsolutely 
home  away  hy  the  intervention  of  Onk  who  is  ahle  to  do 
it  in  His  own  person;  and  that  the  clearance  of  every  soul 
is  already  ordained  like  an  acquittal  in  a  court  of  justice, 
upon  the  simple  condition  of  ])utting  the  whole  case  into 
the  hands  of  an  all-prevailing  Advocate  and  Intercessor. 

And  this  is  the  imperishahle  distinction  of  the  Word 
of  God  spoken  or  written,  that  it  continues  to  re-echo 
arcjund  the  world.  Hence,  it  is  called  the  Word  of  Life. 
He  that  came  down  from  heaven  to  whom  (lod  gave  all 
])ower  in  heaven  and  on  earth,  said  to  his  disci])les, 
"  The  words  that  I  speak  unto  you,  they  are  spirit  and 
they  are  life.*'  The  life  which  he  meant  was  life 
eternal:  for  Christ  said  in  his  prayer  to  the  Father,  "  T 
have  given  unto  them  the  word  which  thou  gavest  me;" 
and  to  these  words  he  attached  a  knowledge  of  divine 
things  wliich  l)eing  received  into  the  heart  conveyed  the 
gift  of  everlasting  life,  as  the  8on  also  said,  "  This  is  life 
eternal  tliat  they  should  know  Thee  the  only  true  God, 
and  Jesus  ("hrist  whom  thou  hast  sent/' 

Every  lover  of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  earnestly  desires 
to  im])il)e  the  spirit  wliich  He  manifested  in  His  inter- 
cessory prayer  from  which  these  words  are  taken.  Tlieir 
meaning  was  hetter  understood  after  the  divine  Speakei- 
rose  from  the  dead,  when  it  was  perceived  that  a  higher 
operation  of  law  came  within  the  field  of  human  ol)serva- 
tion,  even  as  when  the  astronomer  discovers  a  i)lanet 
which  man  has  never   seen  before.     It  has   been  shining 


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unknown  to  men  and  rolling  onward  in  confonnity  to  all 
nature's  laws.  80  Christ's  rising;  from  the  dead  was  no 
miracle  as  iii  any  sense  contrary  to  the  laws  of  nature, 
l>ut  as  one  of  a  vast  series  spreading  over  a  field  hitlierto 
unexplored  hy  men;  even  as  Hershel's  telescope  pierced 
heyond  the  veil  known  as  the  Milky  Way,  and  discovered 
stars  in  the  profound  depths  beyond  it  which  were  mov- 
ing onward  in  harmony  with  the  other  heaveidy  bodies 
that  ever  roll  in  unison  with  the  i)lanetary  system  around 
the  supreme  centre  of  the  seen  and  unseen  Universe. 
Xo  astronomer  had  ever  looked  U])on  those  stars  hefi^re, 
yet  they  had  existed  through  the  unrecorded  past.  When 
they  swung  across  the  vision  of  men  they  deranged  not 
the  harmony  of  the  spheres.  AVhen  Christ  rose  from  the 
dead  he  created  no  disturbance  of  the  laws  of  nature,  but 
was  a  glorious  efflorescence  evolved  by  all  the  prophecies, 
the  first  fruit  of  them  that  slept  in  the  dust  of  the  earth. 
No  shock,  therefore,  was  given  to  the  revolutions  of 
nature.  A  divine  harmony  prevailed,  and  joined  the 
melodies  of  nature  to  the  anthem  which  completed  the 
oratoi'io  of  the  Universe,  the  prelude  to  which  began  at 
the  Creation  when  the  morning  stars  sang  together. 

This  is  the  ordci-  of  nature,  foi"  "  that  was  not  first  which 
was  spiritual,  but  that  which  is  natural,  and  afterward 
that  which  isspiritual  ;  for  the  first  man  was  of  the  earth 
earthy,  the  second  man  is  the  Lord  from  heaven.  And  as  we 
have  borne  the  image  of  the  earthy,  we  shall  also  bear 
the  image  of  the  lieaveidy.  Flesh  and  blood  cainiot 
iidieril    the    kimrdom    of   Cod.      I>ehol(l    1    show    vou    a 


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mystery;  we  shall  all  be  clianged  in  a  inoiiient,  in  the 
twinkling  of  an  eye."  And  the  change  shall  be  effected 
at  a  word;  the  voice  of  the  archangel  shall  resound  througli 
the  habitations  of  the  dead. 

Then  another  word  shall  be  uttered,  a  note  of  triumph — 
^*  Death  is  swallowed  up  in  victory.  Oli,  Death,  Avliere 
is  thy  sting  !     Oh,  Grave,  where  is  thy  victory  !" 

Another  word  must  be  spoken.  It  is  the  word  of  final 
discrimination.  The  Old  testament  utters  it  :*  **  Many 
of  them  that  sleep  in  the  dust  of  the  earth  shall 
awake,  some  to  everlasting  life,  and  some  to  shame  and 
everlasting  contempt."  The  New  testament  utters  it:t 
*'  So  shall  it  be  at  the  end  of  the  world:  the  angels  shall 
come  forth,  and  sever  the  wicked  from  among  the  just." 
The  Heavenly  Messenger  proclaims  it,  as  reported  by  the 
evangelist  John,  in  a  discourse  which  harmonizes  with 
the  truth  and  the  theory  I  am  now  anxious  to  make  plain 
and  conclusive:  "  My  Father  is  working;  so  also  am  I." 
How  did  the  Fatlier  work?  "He  spake,  and  it  was  done: 
He  commanded,  and  it  stood  fast."  How  did  the  Son 
work?  He  had  just  said  to  a  crip})le,  lying  helpless  and 
friendless  at  Piethesda's  pool,  "Rise,  take  Uj)  thy  bed  and 
walk."  The  man  was  sent  home  cured  not  by  a  sign, 
not  by  a  touch,  l)ut  by  a  word.  Our  Lord's  coniment 
was:  "  Marvel  not  at  this  "  (that  is,  the  power  of  tlie  word 
that  healed  the  impotent  man,  or  the  authority  that  the 
Son  hath  to  execute  judgment),  J  "  INFarvel  not  at 
this:  for  the    hour    is     coming,   in    the    which    all    that 

*  Dan.  12:2.        fMatt.  13:4J.        IJolm  .'):  27— 29. 


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are  in  the  graves  shall  hear  his  voice,  and  shall  come 
forth:  tliev  that  have  done  good,  unto  the  resurrection  of 
life;  and  tlicv  that  liave  done  evil,  unto  the  resurrection 
of  the  judgment." 

This  is  tlie  final  word.  This  is  the  last  discrimination 
that  can  take  i)lace.  After  which  comes  the  final  act  of 
allotment.  Tt  is  the  entrance  upon  the  awards  of  eternity. 
It  is  retriljution  which  follows  when  the  scheme  of  salva- 
tion comes  to  an  end  by  its  own  limitation.  For  the 
scheme  of  salvation  i)roceeds  u})()n  an  expedient  to  save 
the  guilty  from  deserved  penalty.  It  provides  a  substi- 
tute who  bears  the  penalty  in  behalf  of  all  who  believe  in 
it  and  accei)t  it  :*  '*  Being  justified  freely  by  his  grace 
through  the  redemption  that  is  in  Christ  Jesus.  " 

That  life  of  perfect  obedience  and  that  death  of  infinite 
suffering  made  up  a  redundant  righteousness  which  should 
forever  silence  doul)t.  As  it  is  written  :  "  Where  sin 
abounded,  grace  doth  much  more  abound;  that  as  sin 
reigned  unto  death  even  so  sliould  grace  reign  through 
righteousness  unto  eternal  life  by  Jesus  Christ  our  Lord.'t 

This  is  the  final  word;  because  it  is  the  Word  of  the 
Loi'd  whicli  cndin-ctli  forever.  And  this  is  tlie  Word 
which  by  the  (Josjh'I  is  })roclaiined  everywhere.  Christ 
preached  it  till  the  Ci-oss  huslu'd  the  divine  accents  of 
love:  and  tlieii  breaking  the  silence  of  tlie  tond)  lie  told 
the  blissful  story  with  new  illustrations  drawn  from  the 
unseen  world,  and  led  Mis  followers  up  to  heboid  as  in  a 
mirror  the  glory  of  the  hoi'd,  that  they  should  be  changed 


*  Ko.ii.  :!:24.        +Ko:n.  .').  2^•2t. 


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into  the  same  image  "  from  glory  to  glory  as  l)y  the  Spirit 
of  the  Lord."  Then  he  went  up  to  speak  tlie  word  of  in- 
tercession hefore  the  great  white  Throne,  while  they  went 
forth  to  speak  the  Word  of  reconciliation  in  the  ears  of 
men.  He  spoke  h}-  the  voice  of  prophets.  He  spoke  l)y 
the  voice  of  a])ostles.  The  prophets  and  apostles  are 
dead;  hut  though  dead  they  are  yet  speaking.  Their  suc- 
cessors rise  and  speak  to  each  generation.  They  disap- 
pear, and  yet  speak;  for  the  word  is  endowed  with  inex- 
tinguishahle  life.  It  resounds  tlirough  hoth  Testa- 
ments: "  Unto  you,  0  men  I  call,  and  my  voice  is  unto 
the  sons  of  men."  New  heralds  come,  recruits  swell  the 
ranks  of  the  ministry,  and  they  take  up  the  word: 
"  We  are  amhassadors  for  Christ,  as  though  God  did 
heseech  3'ou  !)y  us;  we  pray  you  in  Christ's  stead  he  ye 
reconciled  to  God.  For  He  hath  made  him  who  knew 
no  sin  to  he  sin  for  us;  that  Ave  might  he  made  the 
righteousness  of  God  in  him." 

kSucIi  is  the  Word  of  reconciliation,  and  those  that 
speak  it.  Every  one  can  proclaim  it.  Let  him  that 
heareth  say,  Come  !     And  they  that  hear  shall  live. 

Precisely  such  is  the  (xospel  in  its  provision  of  salva- 
tion. Its  benefits  ])egin  in  time.  It  clears  up  all  enignuis 
as  it  goes  onward.  It  makes  the  track  of  life  luminous; 
and  there  is  no  mystery  in  death  except  in  the  sense  that 
an  impenetrable  veil  hangs  between  us  and  those  who  have 
gone  before.  Sometimes  the  veil  is  parted  for  a  moment, 
and  we  catch  a  glimpse  which  transfixes  us;  and  we  bear 
upon  our  faces  for  a  time  the  lustre  Avliich  it  kindles. 


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But  the  vision  is  transient — for  we  are  to  walk  by  faith 
liere: — yet  the  voiees  wliicli  spoke  to  us  in  tlie  air  we 
breathe  are  not  silenced  sinee  they  re-echo  in  our  ears. 
They  are  the  voices  speaking  from  within  the  veil  to  all 
ears  that  are  disposed  to  listen  to  the  Avords  of  everlasting^ 
life.     Though  we  call  them  dead,  they  are  yet  speaking. 

The  Book  which  contains  this  final  i)hilosophy  possesses 
this  living  power.  Its  words,  tlierefore,  are  living  words. 
The  faith  it  imparts  is  a  living  faitli.  The  expeoiation  it 
inspires  is  a  blessed  hope,  because  it  looks  for  the  coming 
of  the  great  God  even  our  Savior  Jesus  Christ. 

Asrain.  The  whole  system  of  Thristianitv  reveals  itself 
as  tarrying  awhile  on  this  planet  to  establish  its  beginnings. 
Thence  it  rises  into  the  heavens.  How  brief  its  begin- 
ning,— the  length  of  a  mortal  life  !  How  simple  its  pro- 
visions,— a  little  child  can  embrace  them  ! 

How  unspeakably  important  then  is  the  Word!  The 
messenger  of  God,  the  eternal  Son  assumed  our  nature 
that  He  might  utter  (tod's  Word,  as  well  as  die  for  human 
guilt:  and  the  word  thus  si)oken  was  thenceforth  never  to 
die  out  of  tlie  air  of  this  world.  It  was  to  sound  forth 
from  human  lips,  and  be  written  ui)on  human  hearts. 
''  Ye  are  my  witnesses,"  said  the  Word  of  CJod. 
"Ye  are  our  epistles,"  said  St.  Paul,  "  known  and  read  of 
all  men." 

The  Word  tbei-efoi-e  l)oth  spoken  and  written  is  to  con- 
tinue in  the  world.  It  vitalizes  all  the  laws  of  nature  or 
inscribes  Deity  ujx)!!  tbem  all,  and  gives  comi)letion  to 
tliem  all.      Its  inscriptions  are  never  to  fa<le  out,  because 


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they  are  written  not  with  ink  hut  with  tlie  Spirit  of  the 
living  (jod.  The  finger  of  death  may  he  laid  upon  the 
lips  that  spoke  the  Word;  hut  it  shall  continue  to  resound. 
Its  vitality  may  even  he  increased  Avhen  the  witness  de- 
parts: the  testimony  detached  from  earthly  surroundings 
is  a})pr()ve(l  and  verified  especially  in  the  person  of  God's 
faithful  herald  who  "  15EIN(J  dead  yet  speaketh." 

I  have  given  you,  my  respected  hearers,  a  sketch  of  the 
final  i)hilosoi)hy,  not  intended  to  he  analytical  or  argu- 
mentative, hut  designed  to  touch  salient  points,  to  dis- 
close connections  otherwise  hidden,  to  catch  glimpses  of 
the  heavenly  heights,  to  convince  us  that  God  reigns  in 
all  things,  is  the  operator  of  all  law,  and  out  of  feehle 
agencies  evolves  the  mightiest,  redeeming  fallen  man, 
taking  all  sujx'rhuman  ohstacles  out  of  the  way  of  his 
salvation,  stooping  to  him  in  his  helplessness  even  as  a 
father  pitieth;  and  then  gathering  all  the  saved  into  one 
vast  family,  the  inheritance  of  saints  in  light.  And  all 
conducted  in  conformity  to  law  observed  in  its  precei)t  or 
suffered  in  its  penalty  by  a  Substitute  who  was  almighty 
to  save  sinners,  that  the  law  might  he  magnified  and 
made  honorable  from  the  outer  rim  of  heaven  to  the 
depths  of  hell, — an  expedient  of  mercy  unheard  of  in 
heaven's  legislation;  but  when  known  it  excites  the 
highest  adoration  of  those  who  see  (xod  in  the  i)erson  of 
the  co-eternal  Son  taking  our  nature  upon  hlim  that  He 
might  fight  our  battles  for  us,  conquer  our  last  enemy, 
Death,  and   destrov  the  works  of  the  devil,  and  then   go 


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tlirougli  the  suffering  of  doath  that  wo  ini<:lit  live — 
the  anguisli  of  tlie  ('ross  l)eiii«i-  infinitely  (leej)ene(l  hy  the 
transference  of  hiiinaii  guilt  to  lliin;  for  He  hore  our  sins 
and  sorrows  in   his  own  hody  on  the  tree. 

The  pertinence  of  this  outline  will  ai)i)ear,  when  I  say 
that  it  represents  Dr.  Geary's  phih)sopliical  views,  and  in 
substance  his  theological  also.  It  serves  to  rejuind  us 
how  our  lamented  friend  and  counsellor  kept  al)reast 
with  the  advance  of  thought,  and  broadened  his  views  of 
divine  truth  ])y  examining  current  f|uestions.  The 
suhtilty  with  which  he  unraveled  the  intricacies  of  a 
problem,  and  the  ease  which  marked  his  analysis  of 
l)arts  and  their  reconstruction  into  harmonious  pro})or- 
tions,  were  a  demonstration  of  the  reasonableness  of  his 
conclusions  that  showed  the  capacity  of  a  superior  mind, 
polislied  and  enlarged  by  culture  which  embraced  the  en- 
tire intellectual,  moral  and  spiritual  nature  of  the  man. 
We  cite  him  as  an  example  of  the  compreliensive  educa- 
tion which  is  confined  to  no  utilitarian  scheme,  and  that 
leaves  no  department  of  human  nature  unimproved,  and 
no  region  of  investigation  unexplored  which  man  is 
<|ualified  to  enter. 

My  respected  hearers,  whose  minds  aiv  (lisci])lined  to 
imj)artial  discriminations  by  the  study  of  causes  and  the 
observation  of  ])henomena,  will  expect  me  to  do  justice 
to  tbc  memoi-y  of  tlicir  peer  in  pers])icacity  and  eiaidition  ; 
and  1.  llici-cforc,  lu^sitate  not  to  say  that  be  maintained 
tbc   value  of   metaphysical    studies  as   an    indispensable 


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dep  irtm3:it  of  a  lib?ral  edaeation.  He  deplored  the  trend 
given  towards  materialism  bv  the  intense  activities  of 
the  age,  wliicli  liave  warped  also  our  systems  of  education 
and  biased  our  literarv  judgments.  A  few  popular  writ- 
ers who  have  fallen  under  tlie  dominion  of  matter  and 
force,  have  labored  with  aljilitv  to  strengthen  the  trend 
towards  materialism,  impelled  by  their  undisguised  con- 
tempt for  all  studies  which  they  consider  above  nature, 
and  tlierefore  illusive  and  unprofitable.  The  influence 
Avhicli  these  theorists  have  accpiired  l)y  carrying  tlieir 
studies  of  i)hysical  nature  l)eyon(l  all  precedent  explorers, 
has  invested  their  speculations  with  an  unwarranted 
authority;  which  has  i)laced  the  advocates  of  metai)hysi- 
cal  studies  in  a  lateral  position;  but  wherever  the  advo- 
cate may  be,  the  foundation  is  unshaken.  It  rests  in  the 
nature  of  the  human  si)irit  and  the  al)solute  claim  of  the 
mind  to  be  educated  in  every  part  into  a  consistent  and 
well  proportioned  personality.  This  embraces  the  culti- 
vation of  the  spiritual  ca})acities,  to  be  prosecuted  for 
their  intrinsic  worth,  heightened  by  the  consideration 
that  these  spiritual  capal)ilities  are  the  gifts  of  God 
Avherein  we  most  resendjle  Him. 

Our  Memorial  Avould  be  decapitate  if  it  should  fail  to 
shed  light  upon  this  groundwork  of  all  his  reasonings, 
and  the  system  of  philosophy  thus  evolved.  It  could 
not  be  satisfactory  to  his  intimate  friends  if  his 
memorialist  should  omit  to  mention  the  acuteness  of  his 
understanding  through  which  he  discerned  the  relations 
of  ideas,  from  whence  ascending  through  the  dry  light  of 


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aV)stra('t  principles  into  the  regions  of  applied  science 
and  the  phenomena  of  nature,  evervthing  both  ideal  and 
practical  fell  into  an  orderly  and  consecutive  adjustment 
in  his  own  mind;  and  when  occasion  justified  it,  he  ex- 
cited the  admiration  of  listeners  as  he  set  forth  these 
principles  by  way  of  deduction  and  induction  ,  and 
showed  their  relations  ui)on  the  field  of  tliouglit  which 
was  laid  clearly  open  before  us,  and  expounded  witli  the 
skill  of  a  master  the  responsibilities  of  man  both  to  his 
kind  and  to  his  ( Jod. 

Positive  doctrines  and  afhrmative  ideas  are  among 
the  most  i)recious  fruil  of  such  a  i)rocess  of  reasoning. 
It  is  the  outgrowth  of  an  ai)horism  of  Lord  Bacon: 

"Let  no  one  .  .  .  think  or  maintain  that  a  jnan  can  search  too 
far  or  be  too  well  studied  in  the  book  of  God's  Word,  or  in  the  book 
of  God's  Works — divinity  or  philosophy — but  rather  let  men  endeavor 
an  endless  progress  or  proficiency  in  both  ;  only  let  them  beware  that 
they  apply  both  to  charity  and  not  to  arrogance ;  to  use  and  not  to 
ostentation  ;  and  again,  that  they  do  not  mingle  or  confound  these 
learnings  together." 

Undoubtedly  the  author  of  the  Inductive  method  in- 
tended to  caution  the  student  against  regarding  the  book 
of  nature  as  a  completed  guide;  for  if  it  were  it  would 
therefore  supersede  any  occasion  for  tlie  book  of  (Jod's 
AVord. 

l)i'.  Coarv's  intellectual  habitude  was  in  conformity 
with  tills  aphorism  thus  explained  ;  and  the  sum  and  re- 
sidt  ujion  his  character   and   teaching   was   an  exj)ansion 


UK  I  ■--"'- 

into  the  broadest  regions  of  liberal  CTrarrgfitaiid  senti- 
ment. This  was  not  the  stifling  philosophy  which  con- 
fines its  culture  to  this  world  alone,  and  nurses  the  vague 
speculations  which  are  no  better  than  the  extinction  of 
the  future  state,  and  consequently  the  annihilation  of  all 
hope  beyond  the  grave. 

He  took  delight  to  the  last  in  expatiating  over  these 
regions  of  thought.  Not  long  ago  as  he  laid  down  Tro- 
fessor  Dinian's  Theistic  Argument,  he  exclaimed,  "  It  is 
all  then — the  argument  is  comi)lete.  (lod  is  high  as 
heaven  above  the  feeble  intellects  of  man."  He  rejoiced 
to  see  more  sharply  with  the  eye  of  sense  God's  footsteps- 
on  the  earth,  and  His  signature  in  the  skies. 

]^>ut  I  should  fail  to  do  justice  to  this  part  of  our  sub- 
ject if  I  should  omit  to  say  that  these  excursions  into  the 
realms  of  nature  were  logical  su])])orts  of  his  religious 
views,  which  were  evangelical.  The  insi)ired  Word  taught 
him  the  fallen  state  of  man;  the  atoning  work  of  Christ, 
who  makes  (Jod  the  Father  known  ;  the  necessity  of 
being  renewed  by  the  Holy  Spirit;  and  of  faith,  re- 
pentance and  obedience  in  order  to  be  saved:  the  immor- 
tality of  the  soul;  the  eternal  retributions  of  the  judg- 
ment both  to  the  wicked  and  the  righteous.  He  held  the 
liberty  of  choice,  which  implies  human  accountability 
for  rejecting  or  accepting  salvation,  Avhile  he  vindicated 
the  sovereignty  of  God  in  the  whole  work  of  redemption : 
and  l)rought  man  a  heli)less  sinner  to  the  footstool  of 
mercy,  humble,  isenitent,  grateful.  He  saw  the  ( }od  of 
revelation,  a  sovereign  in  the  works  of  grace  as  well  as  of 


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iinturc.  and  found  far  less  difficulty  in  this  view  of  tlie 
])r()l)k'ins  of  evil  tlian  in  any  other  nietliod  of  exj)hiinin^- 
tluMu.  He  would,  therefore,  be  called  a  C'alvinist  hy  those 
Mho  make  tlicolooieal  distinctions.  He  maintained  these 
views  with  signal  ability,  while  he  shunned  a  dogmatic 
jind  con'troversial  spirit.  His  disposition  was  catholic 
and  fraternal.  The  tenacity  with  which  he  held  these  doc- 
trinal views  and  the  exceeding  clearness  in  which  he  ap- 
prehended them  as  the  only  rational  and  consistent  in- 
ter})retation  of  the  !-^criptures,  did  not  make  him  exclu- 
sive or  impatient  with  his  brethren  who  entertained  dif- 
ferent views.  He  adopted  Augustine's  rule:  "  In  tilings 
trivial,  let  there  be  liberty;  in  essentials,  unity;  in  all 
things,  charity."  He  deplored  the  sectarian  divisions  of 
the  Church  on  earth;  and  was  always  eager  to  join  in  any 
•demonstration  of  visible  union.  You  remember  his 
earnest  prayers  that  all  Christians  might  become  one  in 
visil)le  fellowshij)  as  well  as  one  in  spirit.  I  remember 
them  as  offered  on  different  public  occasions.  Dr.  (Jeary 
reached  the  conclusion  that  the  want  of  fellowshij)  and 
<'omity  among  the  different  sects  were  the  greatest  hin- 
-(h-ances  to  the  spread  of  the  Gospel,  especially  in  the  new 
,settlementsof  our  country.  ''I  believe  in  the  Holy  Catholic 
Church,  the  communion  of  saints"  is  still  in  the  creed  of 
Christendom;  an<l  if  it  were  i)ractised  it  would  give  a  vast 
I)ower  to  Christian  sentiment,  and  bear  M'ith  great  weight 
upon  all  the  interests  of  mankind.  Tt  would  instantly 
suppress  some  evils  and  establish  some  reforms  forwliicli 
^ve  are    separately    contending   in   vain.     And   is   it   not 


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time  before  (lod  and  the  world  for  all  denominations  to 
hold  their  creeds  and  ordinances  in  subordination  to  the 
broader  generalizations  of  the  (Jospel?  This  union  army 
is  increasing  in  drill  and  power,  and  the  day  of  it& 
triumph  shall  come  when  the  Saviour's  i)rayer  shall  bo- 
answered,  "  That  thev  all  may  be  one  in  us,  that  the 
world  may  believe  that  Thou  didst  send  Me/'  Then  Dr. 
( Jeary  will  l)e  remembered  as  an  earnest  advocate  of  Union 
in  this  part  of  the  Lord's  Kingdom. 

These-broad  church  sentiments.  Dr.  (Jearyheld,  Avere 
consistent  with  his  Presbyterian  theolog}^,  and  ecclesiasti- 
cal relations.  Hence,  his  preaching  abounded  with  the 
fullness  and  the  freeness  of  salvation,  and  the  tender  of 
unconditional  fellowship  to  all  of  every  name  who  love 
our  Lord  Jesus  Christ  in  sincerity. 

Though  Dr.  Geary  was  a  man  of  extensive  learning, 
and  capable  of  the  profoundest  research,  yet  he  never 
paraded  his  erudition.  He  brought  the  l)eaten  oil  into 
the  sanctuary  ;  he  broke  the  alabaster  box,  and  the  name 
of  Jesus  was  as  fragrance  poured  forth.  He  extracted  the 
honey  out  of  the  rock.  But  he  learned  the  divine  art 
at  the  feet  of  his  Master.  He  wondered  at  the  gracious 
words  that  fell  from  the  Saviour's  li])S  ;  then  he  imbibed 
bis  spirit,  and  preached  as  Jesus  and  the  Apostles  did. 
His  sermons  were  able  expositions  of  saving  and  sanctify- 
ing truth.  Thcw  were  addressed  to  the  conscience  and 
the  heart.  Tluy  were  scriptural.  They  proclaime*]  sal- 
vation on  the  authority  of  (rod,  as  a  herald  would  })ublish 
the  proclamation  of  his  sovereign.     He  a|)peale(l    inuch 


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to  reason  that  it  iiii*ilit  ai)i)ivlu'n(lj)ut  more  to  faith,  tliat 
it  might  trust,  and  to  gratitude  tliat  it  miglit  love  and 
adore.  From  general  truths  he  dedueed  ])ungent  an<l 
•special  applications,  and  often  dealt  with  current 
occasions  of  discourse,  to  the  delight  and  edification  of 
Ins  hearers  ;  hut  always  hasing  his  appeals  upon  the  writ- 
ten Word. 

Dr.  (Jearv  never  forgot  that  the  efficacy  of  i)reaching 
'dei)ended  upon  the  Holy  Spirit,  who  works  with  those  that 
honor  Him  with  their  dependence,  trust  and  expectation. 
Such  preaching  sows  the  seed  of  the  kingdom  ;  and  tlie 
harvest  shall  ri[)en  in  due  time.  The  preacher  shall  dis- 
appear :    BUT    HE    lU:iX(i    nEAl)    YET   SPEAKETH. 

On  communion  seasons  Dr.  Geary  was  in  his  element. 
His  devotional  si)irit  spread  from  heart  to  heart.  He  was 
transformed  as  he  dwelt  upon  the  scene  with  Jesus  in  the 
midst,  and  heard  the  word  that  the  Master  spoke,  ''  With 
ilesire  have  1  desired  to  eat  this  passover  with  you."  He 
went  uj)  into  the  holy  mount  as  Moses  did  with  the  elders, 
as  it  is  written,  "  They  saw  the  ( Jod  of  Israel  ;  and  there 
was  under  his  feet  a  pavement  of  sai)phire  stone,  and  tlie 
hodv  of  lieaven  in  its  clearness.  And  the  glory  of  the 
Loi-d  ivstecl  upon  the  Mount." 

in  Ih'other  deary's  hands  the  sacrament  was  a  sym- 
hol  of  th<'  l>amh  slain  :  and  a  i)rophecy  of  his  return. 
Vet  he  came  from  the  mountains  of  myrrh  and  tlie  gar- 
•den  of  spices  and  the  sealed  fomitains,  and  refreshed  the 
souls  that  longed  for  the  Saviour's  presence  and  his  com- 
nuniion  "ifts.     1  rememher  one  occasion  when  dear  lirother 


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Geary  lost  sight  of  surroundings,  and  poured  out  his  soul 
in  praise  and  i)rayer  ;  and  he  communed  with  his  Saviour 
as  friend  talks  with  friend.  It  was  a  solemn  and  affecting 
scene,  never  to  he  forgotten. 

Profoundly  impressed  with  the  sin  and  want  of  human 
hearts  and  the  all-sufficiency  of  ( 'hrist  to  cleanse  and  com- 
fort them,  l^)rother  Geary's  i)reaching  has  ever  shoAvn 
the  depth  and  i)Ower  of  his  convictions.  The  soul  and  its 
salvation,  Christ  and  his  redeeming  grace,  were  to  him 
vivid  realities.  They  gave  tone  to  his  voice,  and  his 
words  were  full  of  earnestness,  tenderness,  and  love.  His 
voice  we  shall  hear  no  more  :  but  he  is  yet  speakinc;. 

When  Mr.  Geary's  ministerial  life  began,  the  influence 
of  the  ministry  was  more  generally  felt  in  society  :  it  was 
more  conspicuous  ;  and  the  clergyman  was  held,  in  con- 
sequence, in  a  more  sacred  or  reserved  estimate  than  he  is 
at  the  present  day.  Now,  he  stands  nearer  the  level  of  other 
professional  men.  The  teacher,  the  physician,  the  writer 
for  the  i)ress,  the  lawyer,  the  lecturer — mingle  their  inthi- 
ences  with  the  currents  that  control  society  or  atti'act  its 
attention.  In  all  res])ects  Init  one,  this  change  is  perhaps 
not  injurious  ;  and  that  one  is  the  tendency,  especially  in 
literary  circles,  to  underrate  and  put  aside  the  legitimate 
power  of  the  pulpit.  ?)Ut  no  broad-minded  minister  of 
the  gospel  would  desire  any  intluence  which  he  does  not 
deserve  ;  while  at  the  same  time  he  feels  the  importance 
of  securing  the  respect  which  is  due  to  his  position  as  a 
teacher  of  reliuion.     He  is  l)ound  to  "  magnify  his  office  " 


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for  tin'  sake  of  others.  He  must  claim  for  it  wliat  liis 
Master  authorized  when  He  instituted  tlic  ministry.  He 
said  to  the  incumhents,  "  He  that  receiveth  you  receiveth 
Me.  and  he  that  receiveth  Me  receivetli  Him  that  sent 
Me."  He  attached  a  solemn  distinction  to  the  office  and 
theincumhent  in  these  words  and  others  of  the  same  nature. 
It  Avas  the  respect  that  was  due  to  the  hearer  of  a 
message  of  infinite  imjxirtance  to  the  whole  human 
race  ;  and  it  is  impossible  to  treat  the  messengei'  with 
contempt  without  refiectiuii'  upon  the  (led  who  sends  the 
message. 

No  one  will  dispute  the  principle  which  underlies  this 
remark;  and  there  remains  the  suggestion  of  congruity 
which  demands  that  there  should  be  a  character  of  con- 
sistency in  the  and)assador  who  brings  the  terms  of  par- 
don and  reconciliation.  When  this  consistency  is  want- 
ing it  is  impossilde  to  treat  the  incumbent  with  the  respect 
wliicb  is  due  to  his  office.  And  since  the  office  itself  is  so 
elevated,  should  not  the  incund>ent  be  conformed  to  it 
and  transformed  l)y  it?  And  as  the  connnunications 
through  it  are  so  comprehensive  as  embracing  time  and 
eternitv,  and  yet  so  mimite  as  to  enter  into  and  regulate 
our  dailv  lives,  is  it  not  a  very  reasonable  ex])ectation  that 
the  man  who  occuj)ies  it  should  ])resent  a  fair  example  of 
tlie  advantages  which  his  own  message  pr()})oses  to  others? 
Sni'elv  the  message  includes  tlu'  harmonious  develoj)- 
ment  of  tbe  intellectual  and  moral  nature  :  and,  in  short, 
the  cuhure  of  manhood  whicli  jjresents  to  every  observer 
a  svmnu'ti'ical  character. 


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Our  friend  never  claimed  an  exorbitant  respect  for 
liis  office,  and  he  put  fortli  no  ghostl}'  prerogatives  ;  nor 
•did  lie  ever  claim  for  himself  an}^  regard  which  Avas  not 
<lue  to  any  educated  and  honorable  man.  His  intercourse 
with  the  public  and  his  contemporaries  in  the  professions 
will  amply  sustain  this  opinion.  There  is  that  sense  of 
<'ongruity  in  faithfulness  and  competency,  that  yields  re- 
spectful deference. 

This  gives  me  the  opi)ortunity  to  recall  some  charac- 
teristics of  our  departed  friend.  He  stands  before  you  a 
stately  figure  with  a  countenance  expressive  of  wisdom 
and  benevolence,  giving  the  beholder  a  striking  impres- 
sion of  manly  dignity.  His  air  attracted  confidence  ;  his 
sincerity  was  a  pledge  that  it  would  not  be  betrayed.  He 
was  slow  to  speak  when  the  occasion  demanded  reflection; 
.and  his  words  dropped  from  his  lips  in  the  orderly  arrange- 
ment which  none  ])ut  a  well  trained  intellect  is  capable 
of.  And  when  the  theme  aroused  his  intellectual  powers, 
his  discourse  was  tlie  manifest  expression  of  a  mind  whicli 
penetrated  into  tlie  subject,  and  comprehended  the 
whole;  and  yet  so  discriminating  and  analytical  was 
it,  that  no  conditions  escaped  him;  and  therefore,  his 
conclusion  was  the  essence  of  a  complete  and  satisfactory' 
survey. 

His  Avise  and  sagacious  views  answered  the  expecta- 
tions which  his  impressive  appearance  awakened.  And 
it  was  his  happy  experience  to  justify  the  anticipations  of 
his  admirers.  Among  these  were  the  extremes  of  society. 
He  had  the  faculty  to  entertain  and  instruct  the  i)eople 


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whose  education  had  been  limited,  while  his  erudition  and 
other  accomplishments  placed  him  in  tlie  front  rank  of 
educated  and  professional  men.  These  qualities  shone 
foitli  in  the  debates  which  take  place  in  deliberative  assem- 
blies as  well  as  in  the  class-room  and  the  limited  circle  of 
social  life. 

He  was  simple,  sincere  and  unobtrusive.  Though 
grave  and  reserved  among  strangers  he  was  not  cold,  un- 
social or  haughty ;  but  synii)athetic  and  considerate,  having 
all  the  instincts  of  a  gentleman.  Among  congenial  friends 
he  was  tender,  unreserved,  and  affectionate,  often  gratify- 
in  ir  his  literarv  taste  bv  quotations  from  classical  and 
dramatic  authors,  3'et  never  forgetting  what  was  becoming 
in  a  man  and  a  Christian.  He  was  ever  ready  to  help  any 
one  who  was  in  distress  at  the  sacrifice  of  his  own  ease 
and  comfort;  and  would  rather  be  the  victim  of  impos- 
ture than  to  turn  a  deaf  ear  to  the  stranger.  He  gave 
without  humiliating  the  recipient.  He  was  a  generous 
helper  of  his  brethren.  He  Avelcomed  them  to  bis  hospi- 
table home.  He  counselled  them,  and  judged  their  weak- 
nesses charitably.  And  when  compelled  to  diHer  fi-om 
them,  his  maidiness  retained  their  respect,  and  his  kind- 
ness their  affection.  He  was  condescending  without  the 
affectation  of  snpcriority. 

The  basis  of  this  character  was  integrity,  purified  and 
informed  by  the  grace  of  ( Jod.  It  is  this  f(mn(lation  ui)on 
which  rises  the  structure  of  manhood  that  abides  forever, 
because  it  is  well  pleasing  in  the  sight  of  (Jod.  The  great 
poet  of  raradisc  thus  expresses  it: 


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This  is  true  glory  and  repute,  when  God 
Looking  on  tlie  earth,  with  approbation  marks 
The  just  man,  and  divulges  him  through  Heaven 
To  all  his  angels,  who  with  true  applause 
Ilecount  his  praise. 

God  prepared  him  to  l)e  one  of  the  pioneers  of  en- 
lightened civilization  in  these  distant  territories.  The 
founders  of  Anieriean  civilization  on  the  Pacific  Coast 
were  not  the  seekers  after  gold  who  plowed  up  the  glitter- 
ing sands  or  pulverized  the  auriferous  c^uartz,  but  the  stan- 
dard-bearers of  true  progress,  the  pioneers  of  liberty,  learn- 
ing, and  religion.  Various  motives  influenced  them  ; 
brilliant  prospects  allured  them;  the  command  to  march 
like  a  bugle-call  was  heard  in  their  tabernacles :  and  with 
love  of  adventure  was  mingled  love  of  country  and  a  splen- 
did courage.  If  the  pioneers  had  flourished  in  the  times 
of  the  ancient  mythology,  they  would  have  been  celebrated 
as  heroes,  and  their  leaders  as  demi-gods.  And  truly  they 
needed  political  intelligence  and  wisdom  from  on  high  to 
mold  the  elements,  combine  the  powers,  and  shape  the 
destinies  of  the  new  States. 

The  real  founders  of  States  are  not  warriors  at  the 
head  of  marshalled  hosts :  but  the  leaders  of  pacific  armies 
who  raise  the  standard  of  liberty,  education  and  religion. 
We  who  are  daily  enjoying  the  fruit  which  they  planted 
are  ai)t  to  forget  their  sufferings  and  self-denials.  And  in 
this  direction  Dr.  (ieary's  patriotic  services  are  mucli 
overlooked. 


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But  lie  (lid  not  ooui-t  tliis  species  of  renown,  liowever 
lioiioraMe.  His  grateful  fellow-citizens  sought  to  confer 
ui)on  him  the  highest  distinctions  within  the  power  of  the 
State  to  bestow.  ( )n  one  of  these  occasions,  he  emphati- 
cally expressed  his  determination  to  live  and  die  in  the 
ministry  of  Christ.  Let  us  continue  to  look  at  him  in 
the  light  he  chose.  We  see  therein  his  completer  life  as 
ti  minister  of  the  Gospel. 

The  hest  trained  minds  in  the  world  are  either  open 
disciples  of  Christ  or  believers  in  the  truth  of  Christianity. 
Tliey  aid  in  su})i)orting  its  schools  and  churches  and  its 
aggressive  movements  upon  the  hosts  of  ignorance  and 
sin,  or  in  a  less  pronounced  way  they  advocate  its  moral 
principles  and  its  civilizing  influences. 

The  profoundest  students  of  history  are  the  men  who 
trace  the  causes  of  a  nation's  progress  and  bring  their 
effects  to  light;  and  these  are  the  men  who  proclaim  the 
power  of  the  Gospel  to  educate  and  civilize  not  a  few 
favored   ones  only,  but   the   entire  mass   of  the  nation. 

These  conclusions  are  just  without  abbreviation,  when 
applied  to  the  settlement  and  early  progress  of  acountiy. 
And  if  true  greatness  consists  in  the  measure  of  a  man's 
usefulness  to  his  generation,  it  is  all  intensified,  when 
that  man  stands  in  the  integrity  of  his  virtue  and  the 
will  and  accomplishment  of  his  usefulness  as  a  pioneer. 
Now  this  conclusion  being  accepted,  there  remains  the 
superadded  ])ower  and  infiuence  of  the  reigning  pur- 
pose, which  is  the  laying  foundations  of  religious  and 
educational    institutions    in    the    communitv,    and    tlie 


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upbuilding  of  a  divine  nature  in  tlie  individual  character. 

In  tliis  comprehensive  view  Edward  E,  Geary  stands 
in  the  front  rank  of  tlie  world's  benefactors.  Others  of 
the  pioneers  stand  with  liini,  whom  we  honor  without 
abridging  tlieir  claims;  but  it  belongs  to  this  occasion  to 
speak  of  him  whose  memory  fills  our  thoughts  and  our 
hearts. 

The  applause  of  contemporaries  is  sometimes  ill-founded 
through  the  bias  of  i)rejudice  or  local  colorings;  but 
taking  the  ground  upon  which  the  judgment  of  liistory  is 
formed,  we  hesitate  not  to  i)redict  that  posterity  will 
crown  Edward  R.  Geary  as  one  among  the  first  of  the 
])atriotic  heroes  of  the  Pacific  North  West,  and  raise  his 
spotless  effigy  in  her  Pantheon.  In  the  meantime  his 
living  statue  is  carried  within  our  hearts;  and  his  living 
words  resound  in  our  ears;  for  though  gone  far  beyond 
our  ken,  he  is  speaking  still. 

A  great  sorrow  has  overshadowed  us.  It  enshrouds 
the  family  that  unconsciously  listens  for  a  footstep  that 
will  never  return;  it  drapes  the  domestic  altar  upon 
which  the  fire  of  affection  shall  be  replenished  until  the 
light  it  creates  shall  mingle  with  the  lustre  of  the  endless 
day.  It  descends  upon  the  church  like  a  funeral  pall;  it 
saddens  the  brethren  who  shall  not  see  his  face  again  un- 
til they  ascend  Avhere  he  is. 

A  whole  generation  that  has  passed  awa}^  on  this  coast 
paid  him  the  homage  of  their  confidence  which  his  worth 
and  fidelitv  deserved;  and  now  their  successors  offer  their 


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tribute  of  regard  and  reverence.  Friendship  overflows 
with  grateful  offerings  bedewed  with  recollections  that 
melt  into  tears.  Love  inscribes  no  epitaph,  erects  no 
monument.  Its  reminiscences  are  a  perpetual  memorial, 
its  monument  is  the  heart  ;  and  we  shall  hear  that  voice 
intoning  no  sorrow,  for  it  speaketh  of  memories  now  hal- 
lowed, and  of  hope  that  beckons  into  immortality. 

He  died  without  ])eing  able  to  tell  us  what  his  personal 
experience  of  the  end  of  this  life  was,  or  how  his  life-long 
views  compared  with  the  approaching  realities,  and  what 
the  landscape  was  as  he  gazed  with  nearing  vision  upon 
the  scenery  of  heaven;  but  there  remains  the  broader  sat- 
isfaction in  the  testimony  of  his  witnesses,  who  are  the 
ignorant  he  has  enlightened,  the  suffering  he  has  relieved, 
the  bereaved  he  has  consoled,  the  d3'ing  he  has  guided  to 
the  river's  brink,  where  he  dispersed  the  gloom  In^  diffus- 
ing the  light  he  himself  saw  shining  upon  the  farther 
shore,  and  b}'  which  he  kindled  the  Avatch-fires  u})on  the 
promontories  of  his  own  life  abounding  in  consecrated 
labors;  and  we  gather  from  them  what  his  last  words 
would  have  been;  for  by  these  he  yet  speaketh. 

And  what  is  he  saying?  His  whole  life  is  resonant 
with  instruction.  J.ike  a  grand  organ,  though  its  har- 
monies are  ever  and  anon  disturbed  l)y  the  finger  of  discord, 
(the  imperfection  that  still  lurks  in  our  nature),  3'et  when 
touched  by  the  Master's  hand,  responds  in  rich  and  re- 
sounding melody,  so  the  voice  that  speaks  to  us  now 
reiterates  its  lessons  on  the   keys  that  are  pure  and  true, 


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ill  the  tone  that  gathers  solemnity  by  its  transmission  to 
us  from  the  unseen  world.  Blessed  are  they  that  shall 
heed  the  lessons. 

1.  He  speaks  to  the  fi-iends  of  higher  education.  We 
have  not  many  among  us  who  could  place  the  {)rinciples 
of  advanced  culture  upon  the  erudite  and  philosophical 
principles  which  he  so  ably  maintained.  He  was  himself 
a  bright  example  of  continuous  and  fruitful  study.  He 
forestalled  the  rust  of  age  by  friction  of  thouglit  and  in- 
vestigation, and  he  loved  })rof()und  inquiry,  and  followed 
it  with  the  fervor  of  youth  and  the  tenacity  of  mature  life. 

His  association  with  the  managers  of  our  State  Uni- 
versity was  doubtless  an  intellectual  spur;  Avhile  we  have 
the  evidence  that  they  regarded  him  as  an  ethcient 
■co-operator  in  the  work  of  moulding  an  institution  which 
should  embrace  the  substantial  principles  evolved  from 
the  experience  of  the  past,  and  the  approved  progress  of 
the  i)resent.  His  noble  example  will  be  a  living  inspira- 
tion to  his  successors.  Though  he  has  become  invisible, 
his  memory  will  be  cherished,  not  only  for  his  Avise 
•counsels  among  his  brethren  who  were  aided  by  his  Avide 
and  varied  culture  and  experience,  but  he  will  continue 
to  be  admired  for  the  purity  of  his  ch.aracter,  and  the 
genial  qualities  which  he  dis})layed  in  fraternal  regard 
■and  sympathy. 

2.  He  yet  speaketh  in  example  to  3'oung  men,  espec- 
ially to  students  who  are  in  pursuit  of  a  lil)eral  education. 
He  began  early  to  shape  his  course   for  a  comprehensive 


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culture.  His  thirst  for  knowledge  was  unslaked  ])y  liis 
reading,  althougli  he  eagerly  perused  all  tlu'  hooks  that 
came  within  his  reacli.  Xo  douht  his  ideas  ahout  the  ad- 
vantages of  a  college  course  were  limited;  but  they  were 
influential  enough  to  carry  him  through  all  difficulties; 
and  they  were  not  trivial.  His  struggles  made  him  strong. 
They  were  steel  to  the  flint  that  rekindled  his  purpose  and 
made  it  inflexible.  The  habits  so  formed  accrued  to  liis> 
character,  and  made  its  pi'iiiciples  firm  as  granite. 

He  passed  with  high  honor  through  the  course  in  Jeffer- 
son College,  class  of  1884,  standing  abreast  of  men  who 
afterwards  achieved  great  distinction  in  the  professions, 
himself  inferior  to  none  in  contemporary  fame  if  he  had 
remained  in  the  Atlantic  States.  His  success  shows  that 
literary  scholarship  and  generous  culture  does  not  depend 
upon  studying  a  multitude  of  branches,  but  upon  the 
tested  and  conscious  acquisition  of  the  essential  studies- 
which  constitute  a  liberal  education.  The  colleges  of  fifty 
years  ago  supported  their  polished  arches  upon  the  sym- 
metrical columns  dedicated  to  mathematics,  classics,  lit- 
erature and  history,  physics,  natural  science,  intellectual 
and  moral  philosophy.  In  the  modern  multiplicity  of 
studies  and  subdivisions  of  branches  the  tendency  is  in 
the  direction  of  miscellaneous  overloading;  and  there  is 
the  danger  of  missing  the  true  culture  and  discipline  of 
the  mind.  A  fundamental  idea  in  liberal  culture  is  the 
training  of  tlu'  mind  for  its  own  sake.  Independent 
thought  and  sound  reasoning,  comprehensive  views  and 
libci'al    sentiments    are    the    reward    of    a    symmetrical 


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development  of  all  tlio  faculties.  Cultivated  faculties  are 
the  polished  instruments  of  a  well  balanced  mind  and  an 
enlightened  conscience.  They  raise  the  spirit  to  self-com- 
mand and  a  prudent  self-confidence. 

The  rewards  of  patient  industry  and  improvement  of 
every  faculty  were  crowned  with  consecration  to  God  oiu- 
Saviour,  in  the  person  of  the  young  and  ardent  Geary. 
His  manly  spirit  and  broad  sympathies  were  disciplined 
by  his  struggles;  and  he  always  sought  to  assist  and 
strengthen  young  people  who  were  seeking  the  advantages 
of  education.  I  can  mention  only  one  instance.  A  gen- 
tleman of  high  standing  and  acknowledged  scholarship 
wrote  to  me:  "  It  makes  me  indescribably  sad.  Dr.  Geary 
Avas  my  best  friend  in  Oregon,  and  I  cherish  his  memory 
in  my  heart;  and  as  I  write  and  think  of  the  past,  I  can 
scarcely  restrain  my  tears." 

3.  He  speaks  to  the  rising  ministry.  With  amazing  em- 
phasis he  would  say:  Preach  the  Gospel.  Maintain  the 
lionor  of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ.  Do  not  underrate  the 
sufficiency  of  Revelation.  It  is  (Jod's  Word,  inspired  l)y 
his  Spirit.  It  contains  the  only  hope  for  the  world  to 
come,  in  the  intercession  of  the  once  crucified  Redeemer. 
Be  faithful  ambassadors  of  God  to  a  rebellious  race,  while 
you  maintain  the  character  of  true  manhood  in  incor- 
ruptible integrity,  unblemished  reputation,  unfiinching 
support  of  truth,  virtue  and  goodness,  and  identification 
with  the  Lord  Jesus  (Christ.  May  your  record  l)e  that  of 
the  apostles:     'M)ur  rejoicing  is  this,  the  testimony  of 


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•our  conscience  tliat  in  sinii)licity  and  godly  sincerity,  not 
Avitli  fleshly  wisdom  but  by  the  grace  of  God,  we  have 
had  our  conversation  in  the  world." 

4.  He  speaks  to  disciples.  He  seems  to  say:  ''  I  stir 
u})  vour  i)ure  minds  by  way  of  remembrance.  Be  faith- 
ful unto  death,  and  ye  shall  receive  the  crown  of  life." 

5.  He  speaks  to  the  unconverted.  With  ))urning 
desire  he  would  In'eak  the  solemn  silence  if  he  could,  and 
bid  you  to  flee  from  the  wrath  to  come  :  for  heaven  an.d 
hell  are  realities.  But  you  need  not  be  lost.  There  is 
room  in  tlie  love  of  (Jod,  there  is  room  in  heaven  for 
you. 

Respected  hearers!  May  you  so  dwell  in  the  grace  of 
Christ  and  under  the  tuition  of  his  Spirit,  that  your  life 
may  be  an  offering  sacred  to  charity  and  devotion,  that 
it  may  be  said  of  it  at  last, 

IDtj  it  fie  beiiis  btnb  ^et  spenketft* 


MIXUTH  OF  THH  SYNOD  OF  THF  COLUMBFA 


Your  Coininittee  on  Necrology  report  the  death  of  one 
Biember  of  our  body  (hiring  the  past  year,  Rev.  Kdwakd 
R.  Geary,  D.  D.,  the  father  of  the  Presbytery  of  Oregon, 
and  one  of  the  fathers  of  tliis   Synod.      He  lias  been 
called  up  higher  after  a  life  full  of  years  and  honors  down 
here.     It  has  been  the  lot  of  but  few  men  to  fill  so  many 
and  varied  positions  in  the  service  of  his  country,  of  his 
church,  and  of  his  God,  and  to  fill  them  so  well  as  Father 
•Gear}^  as  his  younger  brethren  delighted  to  call  him.     A 
many-sided  man,  he  l)elieved  that  in  choosing  the  holy 
calling  of  the    Gospel  ministry  he  did  not,  l)ecause  he 
could  not,  lay  aside  the  sacred  privileges,  responsibilities 
and    duties    of   an    American    citizen.      Galled  of   (Jod, 
through  the  voic(^  of  the  people,  or  their  chosen  rulers, 
to  positions  of  i)ublic  trust  outside  of  the  regular  line  of 
pulpit  and  pastoral  work,  he  promptly  responded  to  such 
claims  of  duty;  and  we  record  with  pleasure  that  when 
those  public   services  were   rendered,  he  laid   his   Avell- 
earned   honors   down,   and   returned    to    his    ministerial 
work,  possessing  alike  the  confidence  of  Christians  and 
non-professors,  as  a  man   who,    under    all    temptations. 


GO 

could  be  depended  upon  to  stand  for  and  do  the  right. 
His  ability  as  an  expounder  of  tlie  sacred  t-^criptures,  and 
as  a  pulpit  orator,  as  well  as  his  faithful  and  loving  work 
as  a  pastor,  need  no  commendation  at  the  hands  of  his 
brethren. 

V>\\i  he  has  gone  to  his  reward;  and  the  record  of  a 
faithful  and  noble  life  is  left  for  the  reading  of  those  Avho 
live  after  him.  May  the  Holy  Spirit  enable  us  to  follow 
in  the  footsteps  of  the  Master,  building  up  the  cluu-eh 
which  our  venerable  departed  brother  loved  so  well. 

We  extend  our  heartfelt  sympathy  to  the  family  of  o\n- 
deceased  brother,  assuring  them  of  our  faith  that  their 
and  our  loss  is  his  eternal  gain. 

Adopted  October  14,  1886. 


TRIBUTES 


Dk.  Geaky  Dead. 

Edward  R.  (}earv,  I>.1).,  one  of  the  most  prominent 
citizens  of  this  city  and  State,  died  at  his  residence  in 
Eugene,  last  Wechiesday  evening,  Sept.  1,  1886,  admired, 
respected  and  beloved  by  all  our  citizens,  and  pursuing 
l\is  duties  as  pastor  of  the  Tresbyterian  church,  ])reaching 
liis  last  sermon  only  three  weeks  ago. 

His  work  in  behalf  of  the  State  University  of  which  lie 
was  regent,  was  effective  and  untiring,  and  a  great  part 
of  the  success  of  that  institution  is  due  to  his  efforts. 

Dr.  Geary  possessed  the  highest  intellectual  and  moral 
qualities  that  made  him  an  ornament  to  the  community. 
In  all  good  causes  to  benefit  and  improve  the  people  he 
was  a  leader,  and  in  all  cases  where  he  antagonized  other 
men's  opinions,  he  did  it  so  conscientiously,  with  so  nuich 
courtesy  and  toleration,  as  to  win  their  sincere  friendship, 
and  leave  a  pleasant  memory  of  himself  in  their  minds. 
In  short,  he  was  a  grand,  good.  Christian  gentleman. 

21i€  Eugene  City  Guard. 


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A  Good  Max  Gone. 

Rev.  E.  K.  (toarv,  D.D-.oiu'  of  the  ablest  divines  in  the 
rreshyteriau  churcli  on  tlie  northwest,  died  the  1st  inst. 
Dr.  Geary  was  one  of  whom  notliinj^  Init  good 
coidd  he  said.  Ilislife  in  its  entirety,  was  devoted  to  good 
works,  and  he  had  reached  a  spot  in  the  confidences  of 
jnen,  seldom  gained.  Trusted  by  all,  belovecl  l)y  every- 
one, truly  his  (U-ath  leaves  a  void. 

Jacksoniille  Demucrat. 

Death  tx  the  Mixistry. 

We  are  sorry  to  be  under  the  necessity  of  announcing 
the  death  of  Rev.  K.  R.  Geary,  D.D.,  a  mend)er  of  the 
Presbytery  of  Oregon,  and  one  of  the  pioneer  ministers  of 
the  Presbyterian  church  on  the  Pacific  Coast.  Dr.  (Jeary 
was  a  native  of  Pennsylvania,  and  a  brother  of  the  late 
( Jovernor  of  this  State,  of  that  name.  He  was  a  num  of 
great  self-devotion  to  liis  work,  and  stood  at  the  head  of 
the  men  who  at  an  early  date  went  forth  to  found  churches 
and  schools  in  far-distant  Oregon.  He  wrought  long  and 
well  without  the  inspiration  of  near  association  with  his 
brethren,  but  with  a  firm  purpose  to  serve  God  and  his 
generation,  and  lie  has  ])assed  away,  honored  and  revered 
bv  the  men  to  wliom  lie  preaclied,  and  by  the  churcli  to 
whicli  lie  was  so  faithful. 

I^liihtiJelpliia  Prrxhi/tenan. 


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